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Old 06-14-2014, 07:20 PM
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Idle at WOT - problem solved.
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lol, though maybe not so much solved as just different as far as street operation goes ...
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Idle at WOT - problem solved.
Idle is fine .... but i guess over time they may gunk up . All the more reason to give it death
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This took a LOT of work ........

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Oh man that is beautiful! Where did you get that pod?!? I want one!!!
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Very nice!!
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Nice, RHD gets all the nice gauge pods.
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Thanks guys .


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Nice, RHD gets all the nice gauge pods.
I thought the opposite actually ... this one only recently became available on ebay ............. i think

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Originally Posted by Brettus
This took a LOT of work ........
No wonder when you've taken steering wheel over to the wrong side
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Looks like photoshop to me.
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Originally Posted by logalinipoo
Looks like photoshop to me.
What does?
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Looks good!
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Originally Posted by pdxhak
What does?
it was a joke.
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Fuel starvation issue ..... beep is the fuel pressure gauge warning .

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do you enjoying pulling, tearing apart, & reinstalling engines?
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Originally Posted by TeamRX8
do you enjoying pulling, tearing apart, & reinstalling engines?
Well ............... I was going for the 'always run above 1/4 tank when boosting ' solution . However this happened with tank at exactly 1/4 . Was just fortuitous that i happened to be recording it at the time .

My Idea witth the fuel pressure gauge was to run a boost cut in conjunction with the FP warning . I now wonder if this will work as it seems the engine starves momentarily BEFORE the alarm sounds

Good thing is no detonation (it would seem) .... W/M to thank for that .
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did you clean the filter under the fuel pump? may be it's dirty..it happened to me
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is your fuel tank bent, like you ran over a huge rock?
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Originally Posted by FazdaRX_8
is your fuel tank bent, like you ran over a huge rock?
yes actually ........................... about 8 years ago .....
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Originally Posted by halimsteven
did you clean the filter under the fuel pump? may be it's dirty..it happened to me
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New filter
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that's why I referred you to dannobre; as he's stated many times a larger pump will just suck out the internal housing reservoir faster. As power increases so does fuel demand and acceleration-G pushing the fuel away from the pump location, even in a straight line ...

at some point you either need an additional surge tank/pump system of sufficient capacity or extensive fuel tank modifications rather than just a larger pump.
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Originally Posted by TeamRX8
that's why I referred you to dannobre; as he's stated many times a larger pump will just suck out the internal housing reservoir faster. As power increases so does fuel demand and acceleration-G pushing the fuel away from the pump location, even in a straight line ...

at some point you either need an additional surge tank/pump system of sufficient capacity or extensive fuel tank modifications rather than just a larger pump.
Yes ..... I did discuss it with him and that's what he said too.


I'm just trying to keep the car as a street car though and was hoping to get away with the 1/4 tank idea plus adding a failsafe system to prevent a total leanout under boost . Doesn't look like It's going to be any good though .

FWIW I have observed some interesting things since fitting the FP gauge .

Runs at 60psi when cruising , reaches 65psi when under boost at low rpm (when second stage kicks in), decays to about 55psi under boost at high rpm . Alarm was set on 50psi in video above .

This is with the DW 300 pump ..........

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you need a boost vs tank level control loop j/k

the FP sensor control loop is good as a fail-safe but will never react fast enough. The sensor and injectors will experience the pressure drop within microseconds of each other given the fuel line size, length, and flow rate.
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Originally Posted by TeamRX8
you need a boost vs tank level control loop j/k

the FP sensor control loop is good as a fail-safe but will never react fast enough. The sensor and injectors will experience the pressure drop within microseconds of each other given the fuel line size, length, and flow rate.
Yes ...... that's exactly what happened in the video ..... engine fell on it's head a fraction of a second before the alarm went off .
Any ideas on how i could get an extr few microseconds to allow a failsafe to work ?


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